“Lovely Bones” To Premiere For Charity

"Lovely Bones" To Premiere For Charity

Peter Jackson’s highly anticipated “The Lovely Bones” will have its world premiere as the Royal Film Performance 2009 at Leicester Square in London late next month. The principal fundraising event of The Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF), all money raised from the event will go directly to the charity, which supports film and TV employees and their families in times of hardship.

“We are delighted to be able to premiere a film of such distinction for the Royal Film Performance 2009,” CTBF President, David Murrell said. “This will be a truly world-class event, attended by an internationally acclaimed director and cast and members of the Royal Family. We are truly grateful to Paramount Pictures for arranging this special premiere two months ahead of UK release and to the Royal Family for their unstinted support of this exceptional fundraising event.”

“I am honoured that The Lovely Bones has been selected to be this year’s Royal Gala film, in support of the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund,” Jackson said in a statement. “This film has been an extraordinary journey, for myself as a filmmaker and for all of those who worked on it. On behalf of everyone involved, we are thrilled that Their Royal Highnesses and the CTBF audience will be amongst the first people in the world to see it.”

Comments

kiwigirl
May 21, 2016 10:27 pm

“…all money raised from the event will go directly to the charity, which supports film and TV employees and their families in times of hardship.”

Seriously?? Why don’t they just ask TomKat and Brangelina to donate some of the millions they receive every year to the people who actually MAKE the films?
I’m certainly not knocking the charity itself – but when there’s such a huge gap between the wages of the onscreen talent (who was plucked from obscurity because of their long legs) and the runner (with a masters degree in film and a $60,000 student loan) who picks up the drycleaning for the Executive In Charge of the Production – you know your industry is in trouble.